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(USA Today) Interesting Obama getting significantly more support from evangelicals than McCain. "Evangelicals are more concerned about peace and prosperity than they are about abortion or same-sex marriage"   (usatoday.com) divider line 158
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NeverDrunk23 2008-10-12 10:04:39 AM  
This is bad news....for Republican Jesus.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:10:46 AM  
That headline isn't true. He doesn't get more than McCain - he just gets more than Kerry.

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:16:25 AM  
This could fire up the new Republicans and be bad news for Obama. The new generation of Republicans hate peace and prosperity almost as much as they hate America's freedom and opportunity.

almost as much.

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:22:41 AM  
This is proof there is no god. If God existed RON PAUL would be the president.

 
Barnacles! [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:24:26 AM  
DamnYankees: That headline isn't true. He doesn't get more than McCain - he just gets more than Kerry.

yes it is true:

FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:26:33 AM  
I thought evangelicals went to church more than one or two times a month.

 
burndtdan 2008-10-12 10:27:08 AM  
NeverDrunk23: This is bad news....for Republican Jesus.

Barnacles!: DamnYankees: That headline isn't true. He doesn't get more than McCain - he just gets more than Kerry.

yes it is true:


well, based on other polling i've seen, you're both right. obama is pulling in the "monthly churchgoers", while mccain is winning the people who live at church.

my take on that is that mccain is winning with people who don't leave church to go out into the real world to get a dose of perspective.

 
NeverDrunk23 2008-10-12 10:27:40 AM  
eddyatwork: This is proof there is no god. If God existed RON PAUL would be the president.

Not even God himself can pull that off.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:27:41 AM  
Barnacles!: FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

Hm. I didn't catch that part. But I also don't think that's the same thing as "evangelicals", which I generally interpret to mean white protestants. Maybe that's my own bias.

 
t3knomanser 2008-10-12 10:29:56 AM  
eddyatwork: If God existed RON PAUL would be the president.

tbn0.google.com

STEVE HOLT RON PAUL!

 
burndtdan 2008-10-12 10:31:02 AM  
it dropped my republican jesus pic

positiveblasphemy.blogspot.com

 
NeverDrunk23 2008-10-12 10:32:24 AM  
burndtdan: NeverDrunk23: This is bad news....for Republican Jesus.

Barnacles!: DamnYankees: That headline isn't true. He doesn't get more than McCain - he just gets more than Kerry.

yes it is true:

well, based on other polling i've seen, you're both right. obama is pulling in the "monthly churchgoers", while mccain is winning the people who live at church.

my take on that is that mccain is winning with people who don't leave church to go out into the real world to get a dose of perspective.


McCain is basically getting the people that we all knew would vote for him since day 1. No one should be surprised at this.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:33:13 AM  
NeverDrunk23: eddyatwork: This is proof there is no god. If God existed RON PAUL would be the president.

Not even God himself can pull that off.


Ron Paul can win, just write him in! It's real easy, 7 little itsy bitsy letters. Just think two first names. It doesn't take God to elect him, just a writing utensil. The pen is mightier than the sword!

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:33:15 AM  
burndtdan: my take on that is that mccain is winning with people who don't leave church to go out into the real world to get a dose of perspective.

That's essentially correct. The folks who go to church weekly or more often are staunchly McCain. The folks who go occasionally are strongly Obama. The folks who never go are really, really strongly Obama.

That's why you should always pander to the religious right. If you want to lose like a one-legged gazelle at the cheetah olympics.

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:34:04 AM  
GaryPDX: The pen is mightier than the sword!

I've spent a pretty penny on penis mightiers, I can tell you...

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:35:01 AM  
dahmers love zombie: The folks who go occasionally are strongly Obama. The folks who never go are really, really strongly Obama.

How strange. I haven't been inside a church for 15 years and I'm writing in RON PAUL!

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:35:02 AM  
NeverDrunk23: Not even God himself can pull that off.

RON PAUL IS GOD!

GaryPDX: 7 little itsy bitsy letters

Considering the average American this might be too much for them.

 
FredaDeStilleto [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:36:25 AM  
Obama will get the evangelical vote because they actually represent a more moderate section of the Christian Right. It's the Fundamentalists (who scare the Evangelicals) who will stay with McCain. Evangelicals > Fundamentalists

 
Howie Spankowitz [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:40:19 AM  
Jesus is going to be very angry at this news.

You won't like Jesus when he's angry.

Just ask the Canaanites.

 
NeverDrunk23 2008-10-12 10:45:33 AM  
dahmers love zombie: burndtdan: my take on that is that mccain is winning with people who don't leave church to go out into the real world to get a dose of perspective.

That's essentially correct. The folks who go to church weekly or more often are staunchly McCain. The folks who go occasionally are strongly Obama. The folks who never go are really, really strongly Obama.


So...what you are saying is that Obama is the anti-Christ....

I KNEW IT!

And to define terms accurately, who is more annoying, evangelicals or fundamentalists?

 
Sgt Otter [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:47:55 AM  
DamnYankees: Barnacles!: FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

Hm. I didn't catch that part. But I also don't think that's the same thing as "evangelicals", which I generally interpret to mean white protestants baptists, particularly Southern Baptists
. Maybe that's my own bias.

FTFY.

 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:51:45 AM  
It's a start. Now if they'll just stop clinging to their guns, we'll have some real progress.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:52:04 AM  
Sgt Otter: baptists, particularly Southern Baptists. Maybe that's my own bias.

FTFY.


That's correct. The Baptists are the ones that own the Rapture Poofing nonsense. Makes the other protestants look bad.

 
Howie Spankowitz [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:53:23 AM  
GaryPDX: Sgt Otter: baptists, particularly Southern Baptists. Maybe that's my own bias.

FTFY.

That's correct. The Baptists are the ones that own the Rapture Poofing nonsense. Makes the other protestants look bad.


Apparently, you've never been to an Assemblies of God church.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:56:15 AM  
Howie Spankowitz: Apparently, you've never been to an Assemblies of God church.

I can't tell the difference between them and the Baptists. That Rapture crap is only about 2 centuries old and come from the Millerites.

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 10:57:15 AM  
NeverDrunk23: And to define terms accurately, who is more annoying, evangelicals or fundamentalists?

Anyone who constantly either 1)brings up God or praises Jesus in virtually every conversation or sentence, or 2)persistently attempts to save your soul with their own religious dogma. Labels mean nothing. It's the action that makes the asshole.

GaryPDX: dahmers love zombie: The folks who go occasionally are strongly Obama. The folks who never go are really, really strongly Obama.

How strange. I haven't been inside a church for 15 years and I'm writing in RON PAUL!


How un-strange. A Ron Paul voter who has no clue of the difference between the idiographic and the nomothetic, nor what the social scientist's role is in that dialectic.

 
Howie Spankowitz [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:00:42 AM  
GaryPDX: Howie Spankowitz: Apparently, you've never been to an Assemblies of God church.

I can't tell the difference between them and the Baptists. That Rapture crap is only about 2 centuries old and come from the Millerites.


You need to do some homework on those who vote like you, then (I mean, when you aren't being all independent and stuff). AG people are Pentecostals and speak in tongues and believe in the earthly manifestation of the "gifts of the spirit." SB's are not Pentecostals.

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:04:12 AM  
Howie Spankowitz: You need to do some homework on those who vote like you, then (I mean, when you aren't being all independent and stuff). AG people are Pentecostals and speak in tongues and believe in the earthly manifestation of the "gifts of the spirit." SB's are not Pentecostals.

I always steered clear of cults..what can I say.

 
UNC_Samurai [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:05:25 AM  
Even the evangelicals are starting to realize the social conservative issues are bullshiat.

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:07:44 AM  
dahmers love zombie: The folks who go to church weekly or more often are staunchly McCain. The folks who go occasionally are strongly Obama. The folks who never go are really, really strongly Obama.

What about the folks who worship satan while drinking the blood of christian babies and firebombing churches? Who can WE turn to?

 
hillbillypharmacist [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:34:21 AM  
Barnacles!: FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

People who go to church once a month aren't Christians, they're posers. Posers are people who look like Christians but they did it for fashion. And they were fools.

 
dahmers love zombie [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:44:51 AM  
co-conspirator: What about the folks who worship satan while drinking the blood of christian babies and firebombing churches? Who can WE turn to?

Oprah.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:46:52 AM  
burndtdan: my take on that is that mccain is winning with people who don't leave church to go out into the real world to get a dose of perspective.

You could say they're looking at the world through rose colored stained glass windows.


/wow thats probably obscure.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 11:55:52 AM  
GaryPDX: Howie Spankowitz: You need to do some homework on those who vote like you, then (I mean, when you aren't being all independent and stuff). AG people are Pentecostals and speak in tongues and believe in the earthly manifestation of the "gifts of the spirit." SB's are not Pentecostals.

I always steered clear of cults..what can I say.


But Palin is a Pentecostal, right?

 
GaryPDX [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 12:00:47 PM  
DamnYankees: GaryPDX: Howie Spankowitz: You need to do some homework on those who vote like you, then (I mean, when you aren't being all independent and stuff). AG people are Pentecostals and speak in tongues and believe in the earthly manifestation of the "gifts of the spirit." SB's are not Pentecostals.

I always steered clear of cults..what can I say.

But Palin is a Pentecostal, right?


I don't know what she is.

 
filth [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 12:21:35 PM  
Barnacles!: DamnYankees: That headline isn't true. He doesn't get more than McCain - he just gets more than Kerry.

yes it is true:

FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"


It's not true. This definition of "evangelical" would include freakin' monthly Catholics and black churchgoers. It's a useless (and quite expected) result.

 
shivashakti [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 12:30:55 PM  
Depends upon the type of evangelical, I'd think.

Obama's probably got the black AME churchgoers... but he probably had their support anyway.

The crazy-ass white fundamentalists who think he's a "secret Muslim"? I don't think so.

 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 12:53:19 PM  
filth: FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

It's not true. This definition of "evangelical" would include freakin' monthly Catholics and black churchgoers. It's a useless (and quite expected) result.


Ha!

It's Sunday. You want to go to church today?

Nahh, I went three weeks ago. But, be sure to put me down as "evangelical."

 
Don't Tase Me Bro 2008-10-12 01:00:41 PM  
People who go to church once a month aren't Christians, they're posers.

FTFY.
Jesus wouldn't set foot in anything remotely resembling a modern church, except maybe to drive the moneychangers out of it.

 
Sir Roderick Glossop 2008-10-12 01:23:20 PM  
Don't Tase Me Bro: Jesus wouldn't set foot in anything remotely resembling a modern church, except maybe to drive the moneychangers out of it.

Who'd be left to lead the service?

 
Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 01:27:30 PM  
Not in my part of the country.

 
TX-Law 2008-10-12 01:34:08 PM  
When you're working hard to put food on your family, such concerns are of less significance.

/why do women always cover themselves in sushi?
//I vote for a human bacon platter.

 
BKITU [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 01:35:56 PM  
GaryPDX: I always steered clear of cults..what can I say.

GaryPDX: How strange. I haven't been inside a church for 15 years and I'm writing in RON PAUL!

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GoodasGold 2008-10-12 01:35:59 PM  
Obama getting significantly more support from evangelicals Christians than McCain. "Evangelicals Christians are more concerned about peace and prosperity than they are about abortion or same-sex marriage"

 
Crown_of_Shoes 2008-10-12 01:36:30 PM  
UNC_Samurai: Even the evangelicals are starting to realize the social conservative issues are bullshiat.

No! We are just one more GOP administration away from overturning Roe V. Wade and extraditing all homosexuals to Gaylandia.

 
wxgeek [TotalFark] 2008-10-12 01:37:34 PM  
filth: It's not true. This definition of "evangelical" would include freakin' monthly Catholics and black churchgoers. It's a useless (and quite expected) result.

Wait, I'm confused.

Are you saying that black people aren't evangelicals?

Or that black people are useless and aren't worth counting?

Or that people who don't go to church every Sunday aren't Christians?

I'd just like to be clear.

 
KeatingFive 2008-10-12 01:39:35 PM  
GaryPDX: Sgt Otter: baptists, particularly Southern Baptists. Maybe that's my own bias.

FTFY.

That's correct. The Baptists are the ones that own the Rapture Poofing nonsense. Makes the other protestants look bad.


The Southern Baptist Cult is dangerous to America.

/Good place to get laid, though.

 
tuna fingers 2008-10-12 01:40:04 PM  
hillbillypharmacist: Barnacles!: FTFA: "Voters who attend religious services one to two times a month are supporting the Democratic nominee by 60%.....Sen. John McCain has 34% of the vote of monthly churchgoers in the survey"

People who go to church once a month aren't Christians, they're posers. Posers are people who look like Christians but they did it for fashion. And they were fools.


Wow. That brings me back to 1985, that misuse of "poser". Look it up before you use that again.
Please.

 
equilibrium 2008-10-12 01:41:22 PM  
This just in: Evangelicals and Fundamentalists are not the same thing. All Christian fundamentalists are evangelicals but not all evangelicals are fundamentalists.

 
PirateFreedom 2008-10-12 01:41:28 PM  
Christians favor peace and prosperity.
Evangelicals still favor fanaticism, ignorance, intolerance and repression.

 
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